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Rochester police are investigating an officer-involved shooting in the Beechwood neighborhood Tuesday.

According to Investigator Frank Camp, officers were called to 321 Garson Ave. at 6:50 p.m. "for an on-going problem of a former friend threatening the caller."

Xiomara Roman-Negroni, 37, of Rochester was charged with second-degree stalking, a felony, and second-degree menacing, a misdemeanor, in connection with the incident, Camp said. No one was injured.

Upon arriving at the home, Officer Erin Kenny saw a woman chasing a second woman up onto the front porch of the home while threatening to use a large butcher’s knife, Camp said.

"The officer gave repeated commands for the suspect to drop the knife (that) were ignored," he said.

Kenny, who has been a Rochester police officer for two years, fired one shot in the direction of Roman-Negroni and missed, Camp said. Initially, she is accused of continuing to slash at a window of the home.

But she later dropped the knife after "additional commands from the responding officer," and was taken into custody without further incident.

The two women were not related but knew one another, Camp said.

"As with all incidents of this nature, the Rochester Police Department is conducting both a criminal and internal investigation," Camp said in a release. Kenny has been assigned to administrative duties pending the results of the investigations, which is the department's policy anytime an officer fires his or her firearm, he said.

Roman-Negroni pleaded not guilty in City Court Wednesday morning and was remanded to the Monroe County Jail in lieu of $10,000 cash bail or $30,000 bond. She is slated to return to court Friday morning.